Teen’s new face was grown on her breast

A teenage girl who suffered horrendous burns has been given a new face grown from one of her breasts.
Xu Jianmei, 17, who was horrifically disfigured in a fire when she was five, is now able to smile for the first time in 12 years.
The pioneering eight-hour operation, which used tissue grown on her breast, was carried out earlier this month by surgeon Jiang Chenhong in Fuzhow, capital city of Fujian province in southeast China, the BBC News reported.
Xu woke up after the operation with a new chin, eyelids and an ear.
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